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Hello from Italy
Hi, my wife and I took early retirement and moved to our rebuilt/extended rustico in the hills behind Sanremo 3 years ago. We met in Italy 30 years ago (although we're both English) and have worked in Italy, France, Texas as well as the UK, but coming to this little village was like coming home even though our first visit was only 6 years ago.
We have several really good pizza restaurants nearby, but some of the best are served by our builder when he invited us up to his family Sundays up in his olive grove and he cooks on a very rickety oven. They taste fantastic though, together with copious quantities of his own wine, then some sausages or rabbit or possibly wild boar and then coffee and grappa.
We have a big barbecue, but that's getting a bit old now, and fired (sorry) with enthusiasm after watching Jamie Oliver cook in his big outdoor oven and by another Brit. TV chef who led me to cooking an amazing paella outside on the embers of a bonfire, I started to look for some ideas of how to build a combined pizza oven and grill and found Forno Bravo.
You site is amazing - lots of good ideas and detailed free plans of what to do as well as all the theory behind it. I need to have a good look round at the prefabricated ovens that are available in builders merchants here and also discuss with the builder, but your basic idea is what I'd like to go with, clad with local stone so it fits in with our terraces and house.
I'll now have a look through the forums for further ideas and inspiration.
Thanks in advance for the Forno. Bravo !!!
Roger
We have several really good pizza restaurants nearby, but some of the best are served by our builder when he invited us up to his family Sundays up in his olive grove and he cooks on a very rickety oven. They taste fantastic though, together with copious quantities of his own wine, then some sausages or rabbit or possibly wild boar and then coffee and grappa.
We have a big barbecue, but that's getting a bit old now, and fired (sorry) with enthusiasm after watching Jamie Oliver cook in his big outdoor oven and by another Brit. TV chef who led me to cooking an amazing paella outside on the embers of a bonfire, I started to look for some ideas of how to build a combined pizza oven and grill and found Forno Bravo.
You site is amazing - lots of good ideas and detailed free plans of what to do as well as all the theory behind it. I need to have a good look round at the prefabricated ovens that are available in builders merchants here and also discuss with the builder, but your basic idea is what I'd like to go with, clad with local stone so it fits in with our terraces and house.
I'll now have a look through the forums for further ideas and inspiration.
Thanks in advance for the Forno. Bravo !!!
Roger
...enjoy every sandwich!
- and the 75 vermentino grape vines we planted 3 years ago gave us about 100L of white wine last autumn, plus the old vines sprang back into life once we'd cleared the brambles from the terraces and we pressed the grapes traditionally with our feet and have a couple of cases of lovely red wine that have absolutely nothing but grapes in them. Vino d'uva, very satisfying.
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